Word: rural
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According to Barreira, the College takes extra care to provide resources for students they feel may have more trouble adjusting, such as international students or students from rural communities. Indeed, though, there is no red flag that indicates certain students have had a history of depression or are in immediate need of therapy, and there is no red flag that suggests a student will harm others...
...impatiently waiting for the Gastrovac to go into mass production. Suzanne Dokolas Athens Re "Nuclear implosion," on how traditional family structures are giving way to new, improvised setups: a patchwork of competing cultural factors is prompting European families to adopt a wider variety of living situations. In rural Catholic regions, e.g., Pope Benedict XVI's birthplace in Bavaria, people still appreciate traditional gender roles: men make money, while women stick to kids and kitchen. But Western egocentrism invites young couples to reduce family to a meager dinks model (double income, no kids). At my workplace, I am surrounded by such...
...government has spent $A1.2 billion on drought assistance during the past five years; 53,000 rural families have been helped through interest-rate subsidies and welfare payments designed for those calamities that happen only once in 25 years. Howard told ABC-TV's Landline program that the point of the assistance is to help farmers "keep food on the table and to meet normal living expenses." Given the hardship in many parts of the bush, urban taxpayers can hardly be called heartless or stingy. In any case, it's a fat time for government revenue collection, so a helping hand...
...rural adviser from a major bank says that when a farmer has the bad luck to be stuck with marginal land, staying on it can often be a matter of choice, even a "lifestyle decision." Government handouts only "prolong the day of having to make a tough call," he says. "It's like if I set up a small shop on the outskirts of town and then Coles comes along. Would the government protect me?" Observers foresee a day of reckoning brought about by agricultural consolidation. Foreign investors, such as major hedge funds, are picking up prime farm land...
...voter's psyche. Even a global-warming skeptic like Howard can read the shift in the electorate's fears; he and his intimates have adjusted their thinking and public words. With an election expected next year, Howard's team are devising an environmental platform based on water policy, rural land care and alternative energy sources. Howard has traveled widely in the bush. Farmers are one of his touchstones, and more measures to help them are expected this week. But when Howard talks about "drought-proofing" the country, you wonder: Has the Prime Minister absorbed the lessons that farmers...